Welcome!

Hi there. What were you thinking downloading this book?

Really…

Were you expecting to;

• Become a better cook?
• Improve your health?
• Feed your family for less?
• Lose weight?
• Did you download this by mistake thinking it was something to do with a Raspberry Pi?

If any of the above were your motivators, I have some bad news…

This book has been written solely for the purposes of making sure that I keep the recipes for the food I like to cook in a single place. I suppose that you might find some of it useful, but as a fair warning, I want to make sure that you know what you’re getting yourself in for.

I expect that like other books I have written (or are in the process of writing) it will remain a work in progress. Books should be living documents, open to feedback, comment, expansion, change and improvement. Please feel free to provide your thoughts on ways that I can improve things. Bearing in mind that this will only happen if I can turn it into something that I want to eat.

I’m sure most authors try to be as accessible as possible. I’d like to do the same, but this is a list of instructions for food that I like to cook. Unless I have mistakenly included arsenic as an ingredient instead of aniseed, we’re probably not going to chat on a regular basis. In case I’m mistaken or something serious slips up in the typesetting, you can contact me at;

Email: d3noobmail+yougottaeat@gmail.com

In the unlikely event that you really want to try some of these recipes you should know a few things.

Firstly, I am cooking this in New Zealand (Yes, Lord of the Rings, Sir Edmund Hillary, rugby etc). That means that I will probably use ingredients that you might not have heard of or there might be terms that are unfamiliar or used differently (for example, ‘lemonade’ and ‘scones’ will mean quite different things to Americans than Kiwis).

Secondly, we use the metric system in New Zealand (with some quirky hold-overs from the imperial past) so brace yourself for the prolific use of grams and millilitres.

Lastly, I’m going to try and fit each recipe onto a single page so that I can print it out when I cook. In New Zealand, the standard paper size is A4, so that’s the size that the page for the book is set to.

The cover art is part of ‘The Gourmand’ by Louis Leopold Boilly